Activist Events – Reports from Hancock and Beyond

Alice’s Nightmare in Droneland- Live at Hancock Air Base

October 31, 2020 ucgdew Leave a comment

Statement Read at the Alice’s Nightmare in Droneland Event: from World Beyond War Blog, published October 29, 2020 We assemble her this morning to petition our government to end its use of killer MQ9 Reaper drones pilonted from Hancock Air Force Base. Hancock is home to the 174th Attack Wing of the New York State National Guard. The 174th – together with all too many troops on other US bases across the planet – has been waging muderous war, in

Shut Down Creech 2020

October 25, 2020 ucgdew Leave a comment

by Tobey Blome Amazing week resisting killer drones at Shut Down Creech, culminating in a blockade and a 30 minute delay of commute traffic into the base early Friday morning, October 2nd, and no arrests. Ground the Drones! Toby, Maggie and all of earth’s Creechers! Press Release Contacts: Toby Blomé, 510-501-5412; Maggie Huntington, (602) 459-5257 Peaceful Anti-drone protestors block entrance to U.S. Assassin Drone Base; Military traffic unable to enter base for half an hour.

American Atrocities Continue To This Day

November 7, 2019 ucgdew Leave a comment

by Ed Kinane, Published in the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, November 3, 2019 On March 16, 1968, at My Lai, a thatched-hut village in South Vietnam, demented U.S. soldiers slaughtered some 500 peasants. Fortunately — for our awareness of the savagery of war — news of this massacre leaked out. Later, conscience-stricken veterans publicly testified that My Lai wasn’t an “aberration” or the only GI massacre. Reports of other massacres emerged from other sources (especially the leaked “Pentagon Papers”).

8 Arrested Exposing Hancock AirForce Base Terrorism

June 24, 2019 ucgdew Leave a comment

by Ed Kinane, June 22, 2019 Shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, June 20, our Upstate Drone Action caravan of six or seven vehicles arrived, unannounced, at the main gate of Hancock AFB in De Witt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York. Two of us – accompanied by one of our videographers – proceeded to the guardhouse 50 yards in from East Molloy Road to read aloud and deliver a statement (below). The statement called on base personnel, in accordance

Voices Rising for Yemen – Final Day

November 14, 2018 ucgdew Leave a comment

Header and photos all from Voices for Creative Nonviolence by Kathy Kelly, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, November 8, 2018 Over these past three days, Voices and a coalition of justice-minded organizations have been at and around the United Nations in New York City protesting the ongoing U.S.-Saudi attack on famine- imperiled Yemen. Details are available at www.vcnv.org along with next steps for people looking for ways to get involved. Participants Kathy Kelly, Brian Terrell, and Jules Orkin write

UNAC joins “Stopp Ramstein!” Protests

July 8, 2018 ucgdew Leave a comment

by Phil Wilayto, originally published on End the Wars at Home and Abroad, July 1, 2018 It’s a beautiful evening here in Kaisaerslauten, a city of some 100,000 in southwestern Germany. There’s a light breeze blowing, gently nudging the thousands of multi-colored flowers that seem to line every street. Couples, young families and older folks are strolling through this city whose beginnings go back to the time of the Roman Empire. And tomorrow. thousands of people are expected to gather

The Wars Abroad Meet the War at Home

December 13, 2017 ucgdew Leave a comment

by Felton Davis of NYC Catholic Worker Below is the announcement sent out by Isaac at Action Corps NYC, and a couple of the photo sets from Monday’s demonstration across from the United Nations. It was a long twenty hours “in the system,” as the process from the precinct through the labyrinth of basement holding cells, to the courtroom at 100 Centre Street is known. My vest photo of Nora Al-Awlaki was taken by the officers of the Strategic Response

Gallery of Images from Hancock Resistance, 9/25/2017

September 29, 2017 ucgdew Leave a comment

Here is a gallery of images from “Rich Man’s War, Poor People’s Blood“, a civil resistance action by Upstate Drone Action at Hancock Air National Guard Base that resulted in 7 arrests on September 25, 2017. Click on an image to see it enlarged in a frame. The photographer’s name is highlighted on hover. Right click on an image to see it full sized for download. You can click through the framed images as a slideshow.

PR: Rich Man’s War; Poor People’s Blood (Update with Video)

September 28, 2017 ucgdew Leave a comment

UpstateDroneAction.org Livestream on Youtube by Other Voices, Other Choices Rich Man’s War; Poor People’s Blood 7 Arrested at Hancock Reaper Drone Base with Giant Bloody Dollars Monday, 25 September 2017 at 9 AM, 7 members of the grassroots group Upstate Drone Action once again were arrested as they delivered a citizen’s war crime indictment to the chain of command at Hancock Air Force Base. Upstate Drone Action also placed a huge dollar sign [$] dripping with “blood” in the main

Hancock Drones and Grass Roots Street Heat

May 17, 2017 Ed Kinane Leave a comment

Why Street Heat? Back in the eighties when the U.S. anti-apartheid movement was at a boil, “Doonesbury” had a sequence satirizing the “activists” who spent all their time at their computers. At the time I thought those geeks were a pretty odd bunch. Though I’ve yet to succumb to Facebook, etc., now as an activist I too have become computer-domesticated. I spend lots of time generating or responding to email or chasing after links. For better or worse, on-line is